A. Pigeons, or rock doves, are actually fairly common in agricultural areas.

The Rock Dove breeds at any time of the year, but peak times are spring and summer.

The largest range of any species is that of the Rock Dove.

But only the Rock Dove has been use traditionally as a messenger of the event that they are released at.

An unusual behaviour in a Rock Dove has been reported as it attempts to mate with a dead bird.

And there were a couple of rock doves perched up on the wall of Re-eth-ke's pen.

Blue-chequer variant also occurs in quite wild Rock Dove populations.

Pigeons are domesticated rock doves that have returned to wild or semi-wild conditions.

Despite these demonstrated abilities, wild Rock Doves are sedentary and rarely leave their local areas.

These show a variety of plumages, although some have the blue barred pattern as does the pure Rock Dove.

Pigeons are not a native species but the descendants of European rock doves brought here in Colonial times.

If the nest belongs to rock doves, as he suspects, "there's nothing they enjoy doing more," he said.

Here in the city, though, there were pigeon lofts everywhere, and the common rock doves bred like rabbits.

Black wing-tips and lack of pale or white rump are best distinctions from Rock Dove.

"Their real name is rock doves."

The pure white pigeon or Rock Dove is associated with all good traits: peace, hope, love, goodwill and family to name a few.

I sat on a bench next to an old woman feeding house sparrows and rock doves with torn-up crusts of bread.

They came to a medium-sized sea-cave full of nesting rock doves and discovered the most interesting bird they had yet seen.

The Rock Dove is often found in pairs in the breeding season but is usually gregarious.

Rock doves live only in open areas, not densely wooded places, and only near a suitable roosting or nesting site.

On the north run sandstone cliffs, pockmarked with holes where rock doves roost, and above which more eagles soar.

One has been explored and terminates in a small gravelly beach but the only mention of occupation is by large numbers of rock doves.

Some species scavenge for food around cities and, like gulls or Rock Doves, will happily eat virtually anything in small quantities.

It is a variety of domesticated Rock Dove (columba liva.)

Of game birds we can find pheasants, partridges, mallards and wild geese as well as rock doves.

The island is important breeding ground for the Rock Pigeon.

"Just so, but these are wild or rock pigeons.

They often take species such as rock pigeons that have flourished due to urban growth and settlement.

The Rock Pigeon has been domesticated for hundreds of years.

Thus, the species can also be found in cities, where common prey such as rock pigeons and brown rats may support their populations.

Stock doves are rather like, and often mistaken for, feral rock pigeons.

These included common pheasants, Indian peafowls and rock pigeons among others.

The wild rock pigeon from which these birds are bred also has this homing ability.

Wildlife in the garden includes rock pigeons, blackbirds and woodpigeons.

These big water-birds do not travel as fast as the rock pigeons."

Closely related to Rock Pigeon but more commonly found at higher altitudes.

The island's name derives from the Rock Pigeon which has colonized it.

Domestic pigeons reproduce in a similar way to the wild Rock Pigeon.

Rock pigeons, red-tailed hawks and golden eagles nest in the canyon.

In half an hour the hunters returned with a few rock pigeons, which they roasted as well as they could.

Walking back through the cold at night, through a startled gust of rock pigeons, Cutter heard a voice.

The Rock Pigeon is the world's oldest domesticated bird.

These are small birds that are very familiar to city people because of feral rock pigeons, which occur worldwide.

The turtledove was present from about April to October, while the rock pigeon was available throughout the year.

The wild rock pigeon has an innate homing ability, meaning that it will generally return to its nest and mate.

That blind cave, where rock pigeons roost, will still reverberate meaninglessly on the high tide.

The researchers studied common rock pigeons, whose top beaks overhang their bottom ones by less than one-tenth of an inch.

Despite the number of Rock Pigeons, many people continue to feed the birds bread crumbs and assist them to breed in great numbers.

Fancy pigeons are domesticated varieties of the Rock Pigeon.

Crows, mynahs, blue rock pigeons and water paddybirds walk on the sand near the waterbodies.

Blue rock pigeon (Columba livia)

Within the city, inhabiting the rock dove (Columba livia), especially in the Square 28 de Julio.

The Rock Pigeon is the Euro-American species Columba livia.

Rock Doves have been domesticated for several thousand years, giving rise to the domestic pigeon (Columba livia domestica).

Kings along with other varieties of domesticated pigeons are all descendants from the Rock Pigeon (Columba livia).

Fantail Pigeon (Columba livia domestica)

Rock Pigeon (Columba livia) is a member of the bird family Columbidae, ommonly referred to as simply pigeons.

Nestling-aged Rock Pigeons (Columba livia) have been observed as prey in Golden Eagle nests.

H. (Haemoproteus) piresi - pigeon (Columba livia)

P. gabaldoni - muscovy duck (Cairina moschata), rock pigeon (Columba livia)

The Domestic Pigeon (Columba livia domestica) was derived from the Rock Pigeon.

Rock Pigeon (Columba livia) and House Crow (Corvus splendens).

There are manufacturers that sell a capsaicin-based gel product that is reported to be a feral-pigeon (Columba livia) deterrent from specific roosting and loafing areas.

The Pouter pigeons are domesticated varieties of the Rock Pigeon, Columba livia, characterized by a very large, inflatable crop.

The first description of this genus was in 1890 by Kruse who described Haemoproteus columbae in the blood of the pigeon Columba livia.

All races of breeds of domestic pigeon have been evolved from the Rock Pigeon (Columba livia) that cohabits with man between the Mediterranean and China.

It resembles the tumbler, from which this breed of pigeon originated; although as with all domestic pigeons they are descended from the Rock Pigeon (Columba livia).

A fauna species that has literally embraced synurbization across most of the human world would be Columba livia (Rock Dove) - typically referred to as the common feral pigeon.

The homing pigeon is a variety of domestic pigeon derived from the Rock Pigeon (Columba livia domestica) selectively bred to find its way home over extremely long distances.

COLUMBIDAE Columba livia (Feral Pigeon), (Rock Dove)

ROCK DOVE and FERAL PIGEON Columba livia.

They are not closely related to the Rock Pigeon (Columba livia) which includes domestic and feral pigeons as well as being a wild species of Europe, North Africa and Asia.

As with all breeds of domesticated pigeons, the English Pouter is descended from the Rock Pigeon (Columba livia), and has been developed over years through selective breeding of individuals with specific characteristics.

Some birds are Columba livia, Alectoris graeca, Perdix perdix, Coturnix coturnix, Scolopax rusticola, Turdus merula, Turdus pilaris, Oriolus oriolus, Merops apiaster, eagles, vultures, Corvus corax, Pica pica and Sturnus vulgaris.